Here is an idea,
What do you do if you have the following:
- A crazy engineer
- 1 high-power magnet
- 1 Screw
- Some wires
- One 1.5V battery?
Take a look at these 2 short videos and you will be surprised:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2f6RD1hT6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_odWP-pHME&NR=1
Army Adds Farce to Abu Ghraib Shame
by Sam Provance
Breaking news: The Army officer in charge of the interrogation/torture operation at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 is being court-martialed. My first thought: Finally, an officer is being held accountable. In view of the repeated rebuff to my own attempts to stop the torture and identify those responsible, however, you will perhaps excuse my skepticism that justice will be done.
An Army intelligence analyst, my job at Abu Ghraib was systems administrator (”the computer guy”). But I had the bad luck to be on the night shift. And so I saw the detainees dragged in for interrogation, heard the screams, and saw many of them dragged out.
Watching Act I of the faux-trial of Lt. Col. Steven Jordan last week at
Enter from the wings Reserve Maj. Gen. George Fay. Fay was handpicked to run interference for then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by conducting the same kind of “full and thorough investigation” that former President Richard Nixon ordered for Watergate.
With Fay, too, I speak from personal experience. Shortly after photos of the torture at Abu Ghraib were published, I found myself being interviewed by Fay on May 1, 2004. It was a surreal performance, with Fay seeming to take his cue at times from Peter Seller’s Inspector Clouseau.
Except it wasn’t funny then, and it isn’t funny now. To me, Fay showed himself singularly uninterested in what really was going on at Abu Ghraib. I had to ask him repeatedly to listen to my account. Whereupon he said he would recommend action against me for not reporting what I knew sooner, for, if I had done that, I could have prevented the scandal. Right.
In my view, it was clear that Fay’s job was to quiet any discordant notes from noncommissioned officers like me and help Rumsfeld push the responsibility down to “bad apples” at the bottom of the chain of command.
When Maj. Gen. Taguba’s Abu Ghraib investigation report was leaked to the press on May 4, 2004, I was very surprised to find myself listed as the only military intelligence soldier to witness to the truth. And for my conscientiousness, the Army imposed an exclusive gag order on me 10 days later; a week after that my top-secret clearance was suspended, and eventually I was reduced in rank.
Memory Loss
So it came as no surprise to me that Fay would continue to play a disingenuous role at the court-martial of Lt. Col.
Two of the charges against
On the day before
Eight years off a possible sentence even before the trial begins! Not bad.
The next stiffest possible sentence was five years for disobeying Fay’s ban on discussing the investigation with others. But not to worry. Testifying last Wednesday, Fay could not remember when he had told
Enter defense attorney Maj. Kris Poppe. To Fay: “Today you testified you gave a specific order not to discuss – to speak to no one. And that testimony is based on your memory, is it not, sir?”
“It is,” Fay replied.
So, presumably, we can now strike five more years off a possible sentence.
What’s left of the charges? Cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, punishable by one year in prison.
But the Army prosecutor amended that particular count by reducing its scope from three months to a single day. The only other charges are failure to obey a regulation (a possible two-year sentence) and dereliction of duty (six months).
It seems a safe bet that
If They Had Asked Me
According to press reports, other witnesses will be called to testify at the
Strange. Although I was at Abu Ghraib for the entire time
I could, for example, provide testimony demolishing the myth that
One of the soldiers who worked very closely with
I cannot tell whether the Army is deliberately oblivious to my potential input or it is simply not taking these things seriously.
Last month, a person from the Army’s Criminal Investigations Division and one from the team prosecuting
Never have I been called to testify at any of the trials.
No One Accountable
In keeping with the Rumsfeld adage “Stuff Happens,” and the Senate Armed Services Committee’s timidity, no senior U.S. Army officer or defense official is likely to be held accountable for the torture, “ghost” prisoners, and other abuses at Abu Ghraib. Only the bad apples at the bottom; none of the ones at the top.
Not the commander in chief, who authorized torture by memorandum on Feb. 7, 2002, announcing and implementing a new policy that detainees be treated “humanely, as appropriate, and as consistent with military necessity.”
Not then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, nor his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, nor U.S. pro-consul Paul Bremer, nor troop commander Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, nor Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller (in charge of Gitmo-izing Abu Ghraib), nor Sanchez’s intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, nor National Security Council functionary Frances Townsend.
All of the above visited Abu Ghraib during the torture year of 2003 before the photos surfaced the next year.
Had it never occurred to them that their incessant pressure on Army interrogators to find nonexistent WMD in Iraq and nonexistent ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda, together with the expanded list of torture techniques duly approved by hired-gun lawyers in the Pentagon, the office of the vice president, and the Department of Justice, would lead to the abuses of Abu Ghraib?
Not to mention things like the marginal notes from Rumsfeld, on the list of torture techniques: “Make sure this happens.”
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Only one general officer passes the smell test, and he with flying colors – Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.
On Jan. 31, 2004, he was asked to look into the abuses at Abu Ghraib. A mark of his seriousness of purpose is the fact that Taguba completed his investigation in two months and did not sugarcoat his findings: “Systemic and illegal abuse of detainees … numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses.”
In an attempt to explain how it could be that Taguba could deviate so far from the official line, one wag speculated that, for some reason, Taguba “didn’t get the memo.”
He did an honest job – and we would probably not ever have seen his unvarnished findings, had not some patriotic truth-teller (AKA leaker) made it available. That was the end of Taguba’s Army career, however. Several months after his report leaked, Taguba got a phone call from his boss telling him to retire.
Looking back, Taguba recently told Seymour Hersh, “I assumed they wanted to know. I was ignorant of the setting.”
The general spoke of his futile attempts to get senior generals to focus on the problem of torture. One lieutenant general was at least candid in rebuffing Taguba: “I don’t want to get involved … because what do you do with that information, once you know?”
Taguba also spoke of the indignities thrown his way by Rumsfeld and martinets like Gen. John Abizaid who, like so many other high officials – civilian, as well as military – seem to have forgotten the oath we all took to defend the Constitution of the
A few weeks after his report became public, Abizaid turned to Taguba with a pointed warning: “You and your report will be investigated.”
Preferring to hold onto his belief in an Army led by generals with integrity, Taguba later expressed his disappointment that Abizaid would have that attitude.
Awakening to the new reality, though, Taguba let it all out in a very telling way: “I had been in the Army 32 years by then, and it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia.”
This article first appeared on ConsortiumNews.org.
Here is what he is getting for his hacked iPhone;
It sure sounds like a steal. On Aug. 31, George Hotz plans to trade in his iPhone for a metallic blue 350Z sports car and three brand-new iPhones. But the 17-year-old's device is no ordinary Apple phone. Hotz hacked his iPhone and unlocked it so that it can be used on a variety of cell-phone networks, becoming the first person known to have done so. The person buying Hotz's phone, Terry Daidone, believes he's the one getting the deal because Hotz has agreed to work for him at his cell-phone refurbishing company, CertiCell.
You can find more info about the book at http://www.noquestionsasked.org
http://www.ilcaonline.org/ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/53162
If Bacon's book is a window, Lisa Finnegan's is an indictment: No
Questions Asked: News Coverage Since 9/11 is a clear-headed,
methodical exposition on the media's failings since that fateful day. And because
those failings amount to a dereliction of duty by the unofficial
fourth pillar of democratic society, the Bush administration was enabled to
run amok, trampling civil liberties and due process at home while
destabilizing the world's most volatile region--an outcome
foreshadowed by the Voltaire quotation that opens the preface, "Those who can make
you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
For news people who have been paying attention, much of what Finnegan
details will be familiar: the fear by virtually all the media of being
viewed as unpatriotic, the failure to question governmental
over-reaching, the sacrifice of objectivity through embedding, the
indifference to uncomfortable truths--even the unquestioned
willingness to serve as propaganda vehicles. But what distinguishes this account
is its extraordinarily dispassionate yet relentless piling on of detail,
eventually reaching a suffocating density.
Some of the preparation of the soil for rampant falsehood long
predates Sept. 11, such as the years-long decline in foreign news coverage.
International news accounted for a mere 2% of total news coverage in
1998, Finnegan notes, down from 10% in 1983; network coverage of
international news plummeted from 45% of news broadcasts in 1970 to
13.5% in 1995. No wonder, then, that George Bush could address
Congress on Sept. 20 in a virtual vacuum of public understanding of global
tensions. "Americans are asking, why do they hate us?" he asked
rhetorically. "They hate what we see right here in this chamber: a
democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed.
They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of
speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."
With that thin reed of understanding, apparently unconscious of how it
contradicted Bush's companion threat that "you*re either with us or
you're against us," the
media faithfully tagged along. White House requests for
self-censorship were honored, administration choices of terminology were adopted, hard
questions were avoided. Relatively rare skeptical reporting was buried
deep within the few newspapers that carried it, with some reporters
simply fired for their failure to toe the "patriotic" line.
The rest of the world, meanwhile, was getting far more critical and
comprehensive news coverage, creating an ever-wider disconnect between
the world-view of Americans and that of their increasingly discomfited
allies. Yet every sign of foreign restraint became just one more sign
of how exceptional the
decisive this country was in a craven world of terrorist appeasers.
And when the truth was too stark to be spun, the
fine talent for simply ignoring it. Most notable in this respect was the
mass murder of Taliban prisoners in
widely reported by the European press--yet as Finnegan reports, "an
extensive Lexis/Nexus search found no mention of it anywhere in the
Finnegan's unique perspective is that she approaches her subject
matter as a journalist who earned a master's degree in educational
psychology after the events of Sept. 11. But while the blending of these
perspectives provides an academic frame for her understanding of the
psychology of terrorism and how it affects the media, it's
Finnegan's working knowledge of journalists and their group-think tendencies that
enables her to connect the dots in so devastating a fashion.
No Questions Asked is a sobering task, and one that should be required of
any aspiring journalist before he or she takes on the mantle.
I really don’t know who came with the idea, but it is so bizarre that there must be a market for it J
Dean continues to batter Mexico
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At least eight people have died since Dean, now downgraded to a tropical depression, brought gusts of up to 165mph (270km/h) to
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has visited two of the worst-affected states,
In these states, more than 60,000 people are in temporary shelters.
Mr Calderon praised what he called the unity and co-ordination demonstrated by the authorities and citizens as they dealt with the storm.
But in
Those Sexist bastards.
A troop of monkeys have reportedly taken to harassing and mocking women in a village in
The vervet monkeys are reportedly destroying crops and causing a food crisis in the
Local MP Paul Muite urged the Kenyan Wildlife Service to help contain their aggressive behaviour.
But he caused laughter when he told parliament the monkeys were harassing and mocking local women.
Women have borne the brunt of the problem as they are primarily responsible for the farms and guard the crops.
But the monkeys are only afraid of young men and throw stones at the women and chase them from the farms.
Nachu's women have even tried wearing their husbands' clothes in an attempt to trick the monkeys into thinking they are men - but without success.
"When we come to chase the monkeys away, we are dressed in trousers and hats, so that we look like men," said resident Lucy Njeri.
"But the monkeys can tell the difference and they don't run away from us and point at our breasts. They just ignore us and continue to steal the crops."
'Leetspeak' Is Hot Button
With Gamers, Scholars; One Campus Isn't 'LOL'
By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS
TEh INTeRn3T i5 THr3@+EN1N9 t0 Ch@n93 thE W4Y wE $p34k.(Translation: The Internet is threatening to change the way we speak.)
Online gamers use "pwn" to describe annihilating an opponent, or owning them. The word came from misspelling "own" by gamers typing quickly and striking the letter P instead of the neighboring letter O. Other words substitute symbols or numbers for similar-looking letters, such as the number 3 for the letter E. The language is sometimes called elite speak, or leetspeak, written as l33t 5p34k.
There is no standardized code. The letter A, for example, can have several replacements, including 4, /\, @ , /-\, ^, and aye.Eric has a new Nation column here called "It Ain't Necessarily So," about the unnecessary tabloidization and conservative-ization of the news business.
Hello. It's Siva Vaidhyanathan again. I will do Altercation on Friday as well. Then Eric A. will be back in the country, rested and ready to go.
I spend a lot of my time thinking about books. I read a lot of them. I buy far more than I actually read. People send me piles of them for free. And on occasion I write one.
My life pretty much depends on a healthy book industry and book culture. Yesterday we received this comment at the Altercation Batcave:
Name: Alex Swingle
Hometown: NYC
Hey Eric,
Just saw this article yesterday on how a survey conducted reveals one in four adults haven't read a book in the past year. Now when I sent this to some of my friends, I got a few answers that were to the effect "I don't have the time, I work late..... I have a wife and kids to take care of."
Now while I understand as we get older and have more responsibilities, of course we have less time to read. But I was curious to hear your thoughts as you are A) a professional writer/author and B) are married and have children, and judging from your blogposts over the years, you seem to have the time to read, as I am sure many other professionals, academics and the like who have families do.
It doesn't seem to make sense, in this day and age, with technology supposedly making life more efficient, wouldn't it make sense that we would have more time to pursue such activities? Or even if you do have a full plate, why is it such a big deal to take a few minutes of your time a day to pick up a book (The Left Behind series and anything by Ann Coulter don't count).
Maybe I am pessimistic, but is this a sign we are getting more intellectually lazy as a people? It's times like this when that slight isolationist streak comes out in me -- who the heck are we to tell other countries how to live when roughly 25% of thinks that picking up a book is an enormous burden in their lives??
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Here are some of the core stats from that AP article:
The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year -- half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven.
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When the Gallup Poll asked in 2005 how many books people had at least started a similar but not directly comparable question the typical answer was five. That was down from 10 in 1999, but close to the 1990 response of six.
Notice the massive increase in readership once George H.W. Bush left office and the severe drop-off in the average number of books Americans report to have read since George W. Bush came into office. Coincidence?
Actually, yes. That and most other conclusions we might draw from this survey are irrelevant and overblown. Why would the number rise from six in 1990 to 10 in 1999 and then drop again to five in 2005? I makes no sense, really, unless one concludes that years in which the New York Yankees win the World Series Americans are more bookish. That makes about as much sense as anything. The uncharitable Yankee-hater might conclude that years in which the Yankees are in the World Series drive Americans to read out of boredom and frustration. But I prefer the former hypothesis.
Basically, any survey that finds that much variability in such a short period of time must be poorly designed and executed. The numbers must be bogus or distilled in such a way as to generate the greatest sense of alarm.
This is the latest in a number of reports and surveys that satisfy conventional wisdom all too neatly: Americans are shallower, dumber, number, and distracted more than ever. Actually, there is nothing in this or any of the other recent studies that supports this conclusion.
Perhaps the best-known such survey was done in 2004 by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was called "Reading at Risk" and concluded that found only 57 percent of American adults had read a book of literary fiction in 2002, a four-percentage-point drop in a decade. Please note that the AP story that was widely printed and circulated (and in the case of this Altercation entry, linked to) misreports the conclusion of that study. It did not say 57 percent of Americans had not read a book. It said 57 percent of Americans had not read a work of literary fiction. There is a big difference. Many of those people, I am sure, read The Anarchist in the Library and no other book that year. After all, why would you? Oh, neither of these surveys asked non-English language readers what they read. There are many other problems with the surveys. But there are bigger problems with how we share and discuss the findings.
Look, we all like to pretend that we were once smarter and wiser as a culture back in the [insert decade of your youth here]. That's crap. Until well into the late 20th century, the United States was largely uneducated and illiterate. Even today, fewer than a quarter of all Americans earn a bachelor's degree. The lower your education and income, the more hours you have to work. Americans in general have to work more hours to keep their lives afloat. We have many demands on our non-working hours (what used to be called "leisure").
Books mattered more to our national sense of ourselves and our daily lives (and thus were a larger part of our economy) in the mid-20th century because elites had a much larger role in defining what was important. And elites read a lot of books (or at least tell pollsters that they do). More important, there was little else. Before television we had four or five basic media through which we could get our stories and entertainment. So naturally books mattered more. So did radio drama and community theatre. Nobody is commissioning studies lamenting the drop-off in community theatre attendance over the past two decades.
So, no, we are not getting intellectually lazy. Some of us are lucky enough to have jobs that pay us to read. But in general, millions more Americans read and buy books than did 30 years ago. Why? Because there are millions more Americans than there were 30 years ago.
The book industry is having all sorts of trouble. But we, the readers, are not to blame. Wall Street, Barnes & Noble, and the absurdities of the basic structures of the industry (which allow unlimited returns from vendors, taxes on inventory, and no way to assess market demand until it's far too late and either too many or too few books sit on the shelves) shoulder much of the blame.
I could go on at length. Maybe I already have. To summarize: we are not a culture in decline. The sky is not falling on either education or literacy. The book industry is in trouble, but not because we don't want books. And the country is a better place when the Yankees win the World Series (which, fortunately, happens often enough to make this the greatest damn nation on Earth).
OK. Enough about books. How about some good ol' fashioned World Wide Web reading? Our own Eric Rauchway has a new column on why the rest of the world might like old-timey conservatism better than neoliberalism or neoconservatism.
I will be back tomorrow with a takedown of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings.
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in
DPA
Now poor moose are being blamed for global warming.
Norwegian newspapers, citing research from
Bacteria in a moose's stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon dioxide gas. Cows pose the same problem
Scientists interpret physics behind invisibility cloaks from PhysOrg.com
Is a perfect invisible cloak theoretically possible? Are there certain wavelengths—such as those in the visible spectrum—that can’t be made invisible? How will using imperfect materials affect the performance of a cloak? Scientists from
Two moons on 27 August
27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for...
Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.
It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth.
Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27, 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.
The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.
Here is the main page at NASA with some cool pictures about it’s abilities:
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/aerogel.html
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Aerogel is not like conventional foams, but is a special porous material with extreme microporosity on a micron scale. It is composed of individual features only a few nanometers in size. These are linked in a highly porous dendritic-like structure.
This exotic substance has many unusual properties, such as low thermal conductivity, refractive index and sound speed - in addition to its exceptional ability to capture fast moving dust. Aerogel is made by high temperature and pressure-critical-point drying of a gel composed of colloidal silica structural units filled with solvents. Aerogel was prepared and flight qualified at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). JPL also produced aerogel for the Mars Pathfinder and Stardust missions, which possesses well-controlled properties and purity. This particular JPL-made silica aerogel approaches the density of air. It is strong and easily survives launch and space environments. JPL aerogel capture experiments have flown previously and been recovered on Shuttle flights, Spacelab II and Eureca.
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=14414
Frozen smoke: a world changing discovery?
In the latest science discovery, the material called aerogel could be the latest miracle to come out of the science industry.
Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, is strong enough to not succumb a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C.
Scientists are trying to discover new applications for the substance, ranging from the next generation of tennis rackets to super-insulated space suits for a manned mission to Mars.
It is expected to rank alongside wonder products from previous generations such as Bakelite in the 1930s, carbon fibre in the 1980s and silicone in the last decade.
Mercouri Kanatzidis, a chemistry professor at
Aerogel is nicknamed “frozen smoke” and is made by extracting water from a silica gel, then replacing it with gas such as carbon dioxide. The end result is a substance that is capable of insulating against extreme temperatures and of absorbing pollutants such as crude oil, The British Times reported.
It was invented by an American chemist for a bet in 1931, but early formulas were so brittle and costly that it was largely consigned to laboratories. It was not until a decade ago that Nasa started taking an interest in the substance and putting it to a more practical use.
In 1999 the space agency fitted its Stardust space probe with a mitt packed full of aerogel to catch the dust from a comet’s tail. It returned with a rich collection of samples last year.
In 2002 Aspen Aerogel, a company founded by Nasa, produced a stronger and more flexible version of the gel. It is now being used to develop an insulated lining in space suits for the first manned mission to Mars, scheduled for 2018.
Mark Krajewski, a senior scientist at the company, believes that an 18mm layer of aerogel will be sufficient to protect astronauts from temperatures as low as -130C. “It is the greatest insulator we’ve ever seen,” he said.
Aerogel is also being tested for future bombproof housing and armour for military vehicles. In the laboratory, a metal plate coated in 6mm of aerogel was left almost unscathed by a direct dynamite blast.
It also has green credentials. Aerogel is described by scientists as the “ultimate sponge”, with millions of tiny pores on its surface making it ideal for absorbing pollutants in water.
Kanatzidis has created a new version of aerogel designed to mop up lead and mercury from water and absorb oil spillages.
He is optimistic that it could be used to deal with environmental catastrophes such as the Sea Empress spillage in 1996, when 72,000 tons of crude oil were released off the coast of
Aerogel is also being used for everyday applications. Dunlop, the sports equipment company, has developed a range of squash and tennis rackets strengthened with aerogel, which are said to deliver more power.
Earlier this year Bob Stoker, 66, from
Aerogel - lightest, most expensive stuff in the World
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6955769.stm
Rare dead star found near Earth
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Astronomers have spotted a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood - a dead star with some unusual characteristics.
The object, known as a neutron star, was studied using space telescopes and ground-based observatories.
But this one, located in the constellation Ursa Minor, seems to lack some key characteristics found in other neutron stars.
Details of the study, by a team of American and Canadian researchers, will appear in the Astrophysical Journal.
If confirmed, it would be only the eighth known "isolated neutron star" - meaning a neutron star that does not have an associated supernova remnant, binary companion, or radio pulsations.
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The object has been nicknamed Calvera, after the villain in the 1960s western film The Magnificent Seven.
"The seven previously known isolated neutron stars are known collectively as The Magnificent Seven within the community," said co-author Derek Fox, of
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4580389.stm
Trojan holds PC files for ransom
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A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified.
The program, Trojan.Pgpcoder, installs itself on a vulnerable computer after users visit certain websites.
It exploits a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).
Net security firm Symantec said the program had not spread quickly, but was another example of rising criminal extortion activity on the net.
The malware - harmful software - was first identified by US net security firm Websense.
Ransom note
The program, once it installs itself unbeknown to a user, triggers the download of an encoder application which searches for common types of files on a computer and networked drives to encrypt.
When a file is encrypted, usually for security and privacy purposes, it can only be decrypted with specific instructions.
The trojan replaces a user's original files with locked up ones, so that they are inaccessible. It then leaves a "ransom note" in a text file.
Instructions to release the files are only handed over when a ransom fee is paid, according to Websense.
The electronic note left on the computer gives details of how to meet the demands via an online account.
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"This attack is yet another indicator of the growing trend of criminals using technology for financial gain," said Kevin Hogan, senior manager at web security firm Symantec.
"This Trojan horse is certainly an example of using cryptography for malicious purposes.
"It is the equivalent of someone coming into your home, locking your valuables in a safe and refusing to give you the combination."
But because it is classed as a trojan, it does not send itself out to contacts that a user might have stored on a computer, like viruses. This limits its ability spread around to high levels, "in the wild", said Symantec.
Computer users are urged to ensure their anti-virus and security software is up-to-date.
